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cargo-llvm-cov
Cargo subcommand to easily use LLVM source-based code coverage.
This is a wrapper around rustc -C instrument-coverage
and provides:
- Generate very precise coverage data. (line, region, and branch coverage. branch coverage is currently optional and requires nightly, see #8 for more)
- Support
cargo test
,cargo run
, andcargo nextest
with command-line interface compatible with cargo. - Support for proc-macro, including coverage of UI tests.
- Support for doc tests. (this is currently optional and requires nightly, see #2 for more)
- Fast because it does not introduce extra layers between rustc, cargo, and llvm-tools.
Table of Contents:
- Usage
- Basic usage
- Merge coverages generated under different test conditions
- Get coverage of C/C++ code linked to Rust library/binary
- Get coverage of external tests
- Exclude file from coverage
- Exclude function from coverage
- Continuous Integration
- Display coverage in VS Code
- Environment variables
- Additional JSON information
- Installation
- Known limitations
- Related Projects
- License
Usage
Basic usage
<details> <summary>Click to show a complete list of options</summary>(See docs directory for options of subcommands)
<!-- readme-long-help:start -->$ cargo llvm-cov --help
cargo-llvm-cov
Cargo subcommand to easily use LLVM source-based code coverage (-C instrument-coverage).
USAGE:
cargo llvm-cov [SUBCOMMAND] [OPTIONS] [-- <args>...]
ARGS:
<args>...
Arguments for the test binary
OPTIONS:
--json
Export coverage data in "json" format
If --output-path is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout.
This internally calls `llvm-cov export -format=text`. See
<https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-export> for more.
--lcov
Export coverage data in "lcov" format
If --output-path is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout.
This internally calls `llvm-cov export -format=lcov`. See
<https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-export> for more.
--cobertura
Export coverage data in "cobertura" XML format
If --output-path is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout.
This internally calls `llvm-cov export -format=lcov` and then converts to cobertura.xml.
See <https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-export> for more.
--codecov
Export coverage data in "Codecov Custom Coverage" format
If --output-path is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout.
This internally calls `llvm-cov export -format=json` and then converts to codecov.json.
See <https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-export> for more.
--text
Generate coverage report in “text” format
If --output-path or --output-dir is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout.
This internally calls `llvm-cov show -format=text`. See
<https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-show> for more.
--html
Generate coverage report in "html" format
If --output-dir is not specified, the report will be generated in `target/llvm-cov/html`
directory.
This internally calls `llvm-cov show -format=html`. See
<https://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/llvm-cov.html#llvm-cov-show> for more.
--open
Generate coverage reports in "html" format and open them in a browser after the
operation.
See --html for more.
--summary-only
Export only summary information for each file in the coverage data
This flag can only be used together with --json, --lcov, or --cobertura.
--output-path <PATH>
Specify a file to write coverage data into.
This flag can only be used together with --json, --lcov, --cobertura, or --text.
See --output-dir for --html and --open.
--output-dir <DIRECTORY>
Specify a directory to write coverage report into (default to `target/llvm-cov`).
This flag can only be used together with --text, --html, or --open. See also
--output-path.
--failure-mode <any|all>
Fail if `any` or `all` profiles cannot be merged (default to `any`)
--ignore-filename-regex <PATTERN>
Skip source code files with file paths that match the given regular expression
--show-instantiations
Show instantiations in report
--no-cfg-coverage
Unset cfg(coverage), which is enabled when code is built using cargo-llvm-cov
--no-cfg-coverage-nightly
Unset cfg(coverage_nightly), which is enabled when code is built using cargo-llvm-cov
and nightly compiler
--no-report
Run tests, but don't generate coverage report
--no-clean
Build without cleaning any old build artifacts
--fail-under-functions <MIN>
Exit with a status of 1 if the total function coverage is less than MIN percent
--fail-under-lines <MIN>
Exit with a status of 1 if the total line coverage is less than MIN percent
--fail-under-regions <MIN>
Exit with a status of 1 if the total region coverage is less than MIN percent
--fail-uncovered-lines <MAX>
Exit with a status of 1 if the uncovered lines are greater than MAX
--fail-uncovered-regions <MAX>
Exit with a status of 1 if the uncovered regions are greater than MAX
--fail-uncovered-functions <MAX>
Exit with a status of 1 if the uncovered functions are greater than MAX
--show-missing-lines
Show lines with no coverage
--include-build-script
Include build script in coverage report
--dep-coverage <NAME>
Show coverage of the specified dependency instead of the crates in the current workspace. (unstable)
--skip-functions
Skip exporting per-function coverage data.
This flag can only be used together with --json, --lcov, or --cobertura.
--branch
Enable branch coverage. (unstable)
--mcdc
Enable mcdc coverage. (unstable)
--doctests
Including doc tests (unstable)
This flag is unstable. See <https://github.com/taiki-e/cargo-llvm-cov/issues/2> for
more.
--no-run
Generate coverage report without running tests
--no-fail-fast
Run all tests regardless of failure
--ignore-run-fail
Run all tests regardless of failure and generate report
If tests failed but report generation succeeded, exit with a status of 0.
-q, --quiet
Display one character per test instead of one line
--lib
Test only this package's library unit tests
--bin <NAME>
Test only the specified binary
--bins
Test all binaries
--example <NAME>
Test only the specified example
--examples
Test all examples
--test <NAME>
Test only the specified test target
--tests
Test all tests
--bench <NAME>
Test only the specified bench target
--benches
Test all benches
--all-targets
Test all targets
--doc
Test only this library's documentation (unstable)
This flag is unstable because it automatically enables --doctests flag. See
<https://github.com/taiki-e/cargo-llvm-cov/issues/2> for more.
-p, --package <SPEC>
Package to run tests for
--workspace
Test all packages in the workspace
--all
Alias for --workspace (deprecated)
--exclude <SPEC>
Exclude packages from both the test and report
--exclude-from-test <SPEC>
Exclude packages from the test (but not from the report)
--exclude-from-report <SPEC>
Exclude packages from the report (but not from the test)
-j, --jobs <N>
Number of parallel jobs, defaults to # of CPUs
-r, --release
Build artifacts in release mode, with optimizations
--profile <PROFILE-NAME>
Build artifacts with the specified profile
-F, --features <FEATURES>
Space or comma separated list of features to activate
--all-features
Activate all available features
--no-default-features
Do not activate the `default` feature
--target <TRIPLE>
Build for the target triple
When this option is used, coverage for proc-macro and build script will not be displayed
because cargo does not pass RUSTFLAGS to them.
--coverage-target-only
Activate coverage reporting only for the target triple
Activate coverage reporting only for the target triple specified via `--target`. This is
important, if the project uses multiple targets via the cargo bindeps feature, and not
all targets can use `instrument-coverage`, e.g. a microkernel, or an embedded binary.
-v, --verbose
Use verbose output
Use -vv (-vvv) to propagate verbosity to cargo.
--color <WHEN>
Coloring: auto, always, never
--remap-path-prefix
Use --remap-path-prefix for workspace root
Note that this does not fully compatible with doctest.
--include-ffi
Include coverage of C/C++ code linked to Rust library/binary
Note that `CC`/`CXX`/`LLVM_COV`/`LLVM_PROFDATA` environment variables must be set to
Clang/LLVM compatible with the LLVM version used in rustc.
--keep-going
Do not abort the build as soon as there is an error (unstable)
--ignore-rust-version
Ignore `rust-version` specification in packages
--manifest-path <PATH>
Path to Cargo.toml
--frozen
Require Cargo.lock and cache are up to date
--locked
Require Cargo.lock is up to date
--offline
Run without accessing the network
-Z <FLAG>
Unstable (nightly-only) flags to Cargo, see 'cargo -Z help' for
details
-h, --help
Print help information
-V, --version
Print version information
SUBCOMMANDS:
test
Run tests and generate coverage report
This is equivalent to `cargo llvm-cov` without subcommand,
except that test name filtering is supported.
run
Run a binary or example and generate coverage report
report
Generate coverage report
show-env
Output the environment set by cargo-llvm-cov to build Rust projects
clean
Remove artifacts that cargo-llvm-cov has generated in the past
nextest
Run tests with cargo nextest
This internally calls `cargo nextest run`.
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</details>
By default, run tests (via cargo test
), and print the coverage summary to stdout.
cargo llvm-cov
Currently, doc tests are disabled by default because nightly-only features are required to make coverage work for doc tests. see #2 for more.
To run cargo run
instead of cargo test
, use run
subcommand.
cargo llvm-cov run
With html report (the report will be generated to target/llvm-cov/html
directory):
cargo llvm-cov --html
open target/llvm-cov/html/index.html
or
cargo llvm-cov --open
With plain text report (if --output-path
is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout):
cargo llvm-cov --text | less -R
With json report (if --output-path
is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout):
cargo llvm-cov --json --output-path cov.json
With lcov report (if --output-path
is not specified, the report will be printed to stdout):
cargo llvm-cov --lcov --output-path lcov.info
You can get a coverage report in a different format based on the results of a previous run by using cargo llvm-cov report
.
cargo llvm-cov --html # run tests and generate html report
cargo llvm-cov report --lcov # generate lcov report
cargo llvm-cov
/cargo llvm-cov run
/cargo llvm-cov nextest
cleans some build artifacts by default to avoid false positives/false negatives due to old build artifacts.
This behavior is disabled when --no-clean
, --no-report
, or --no-run
is passed, and old build artifacts are retained.
When using these flags, it is recommended to first run cargo llvm-cov clean --workspace
to remove artifacts that may affect the coverage results.
cargo llvm-cov clean --workspace # remove artifacts that may affect the coverage results
cargo llvm-cov --no-clean
Merge coverages generated under different test conditions
You can merge the coverages generated under different test conditions by using --no-report
and cargo llvm-cov report
.
cargo llvm-cov clean --workspace # remove artifacts that may affect the coverage results
cargo llvm-cov --no-report --features a
cargo llvm-cov --no-report --features b
cargo llvm-cov report --lcov # generate report without tests
Note: To include coverage for doctests you also need to pass --doctests
to cargo llvm-cov report
.
Get coverage of C/C++ code linked to Rust library/binary
Set CC
, CXX
, LLVM_COV
, and LLVM_PROFDATA
environment variables to Clang/LLVM compatible with the LLVM version used in rustc, and run cargo-llvm-cov with --include-ffi
flag.
CC=<clang-path> \
CXX=<clang++-path> \
LLVM_COV=<llvm-cov-path> \
LLVM_PROFDATA=<llvm-profdata-path> \
cargo llvm-cov --lcov --include-ffi
Known compatible Rust (installed via rustup) and LLVM versions:
Rust 1.60-1.77 | Rust 1.78-1.81 | Rust 1.82-1.84 | |
---|---|---|---|
LLVM 14-17 | ok | ||
LLVM 18 | ok | ||
LLVM 19 | ok |
Get coverage of external tests
cargo test
, cargo run
, and cargo nextest
are available as builtin, but cargo-llvm-cov can also be used for arbitrary binaries built using cargo (including other cargo subcommands or external tests that use make, xtask, etc.)
# Set the environment variables needed to get coverage.
source <(cargo llvm-cov show-env --export-prefix)
# Remove artifacts that may affect the coverage results.
# This command should be called after show-env.
cargo llvm-cov clean --workspace
# Above two commands should be called before build binaries.
cargo build # Build rust binaries.
# Commands using binaries in target/debug/*, including `cargo test` and other cargo subcommands.
# ...
cargo llvm-cov report --lcov # Generate report without tests.
Note: cargo-llvm-cov subcommands other than report
and clean
may not work correctly in the context where environment variables are set by show-env
; consider using normal cargo
/cargo-nextest
commands.
Note: To include coverage for doctests you also need to pass --doctests
to both cargo llvm-cov show-env
and cargo llvm-cov report
.
Exclude file from coverage
To exclude specific file patterns from the report, use the --ignore-filename-regex
option.
cargo llvm-cov --open --ignore-filename-regex build
Exclude function from coverage
To exclude the specific function from coverage, use the #[coverage(off)]
attribute.
Since #[coverage(off)]
is unstable, it is recommended to use it together with cfg(coverage)
or cfg(coverage_nightly)
set by cargo-llvm-cov.
#![cfg_attr(coverage_nightly, feature(coverage_attribute))]
#[cfg_attr(coverage_nightly, coverage(off))]
fn exclude_from_coverage() {
// ...
}
cfgs are set under the following conditions:
cfg(coverage)
is always set when using cargo-llvm-cov (unless--no-cfg-coverage
flag passed)cfg(coverage_nightly)
is set when using cargo-llvm-cov with nightly toolchain (unless--no-cfg-coverage-nightly
flag passed)
Rust 1.80+ warns the above cfgs as unexpected_cfgs
. The recommended way to address this is to add a lints
table to Cargo.toml
.
[lints.rust]
unexpected_cfgs = { level = "warn", check-cfg = ['cfg(coverage,coverage_nightly)'] }
If you want to ignore all #[test]
-related code, consider using coverage-helper crate version 0.2+.
cargo-llvm-cov excludes code contained in the directory named tests
from the report by default, so you can also use it instead of coverage-helper crate.
Note: #[coverage(off)]
was previously named #[no_coverage]
. When using #[no_coverage]
in the old nightly, replace feature(coverage_attribute)
with feature(no_coverage)
, coverage(off)
with no_coverage
, and coverage-helper
0.2+ with coverage-helper
0.1.
Continuous Integration
Here is an example of GitHub Actions workflow that uploads coverage to Codecov.
name: Coverage
on: [pull_request, push]
jobs:
coverage:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
CARGO_TERM_COLOR: always
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v4
- name: Install Rust
run: rustup update stable
- name: Install cargo-llvm-cov
uses: taiki-e/install-action@cargo-llvm-cov
- name: Generate code coverage
run: cargo llvm-cov --all-features --workspace --lcov --output-path lcov.info
- name: Upload coverage to Codecov
uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
with:
token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} # not required for public repos
files: lcov.info
fail_ci_if_error: true
Currently, when using --lcov
flag, only line coverage is available on Codecov.
By using --codecov
flag instead of --lcov
flag, you can use region coverage on Codecov:
- name: Generate code coverage
run: cargo llvm-cov --all-features --workspace --codecov --output-path codecov.json
- name: Upload coverage to Codecov
uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
with:
token: ${{ secrets.CODECOV_TOKEN }} # not required for public repos
files: codecov.json
fail_ci_if_error: true
Note that the way Codecov shows region/branch coverage is not very good.
Display coverage in VS Code
You can display coverage in VS Code using Coverage Gutters.
Coverage Gutters supports lcov style coverage file and detects lcov.info
files at the top level or in the coverage
directory. Below is an example command to generate the coverage file.
cargo llvm-cov --lcov --output-path lcov.info
You may need to click the "Watch" label in the bottom bar of VS Code to display coverage.
Environment variables
You can override these environment variables to change cargo-llvm-cov's behavior on your system:
CARGO_LLVM_COV_TARGET_DIR
-- Location of where to place all generated artifacts, relative to the current working directory. Default to<cargo_target_dir>/llvm-cov-target
.CARGO_LLVM_COV_SETUP
-- Control behavior ifllvm-tools-preview
component is not installed. See #219 for more.LLVM_COV
-- Override the path tollvm-cov
. You may need to specify both this andLLVM_PROFDATA
environment variables if you are using--include-ffi
flag or if you are using a toolchain installed without via rustup.llvm-cov
version must be compatible with the LLVM version used in rustc.LLVM_PROFDATA
-- Override the path tollvm-profdata
. SeeLLVM_COV
environment variable for more.LLVM_COV_FLAGS
-- A space-separated list of additional flags to pass to allllvm-cov
invocations that cargo-llvm-cov performs. See LLVM documentation for available options.LLVM_PROFDATA_FLAGS
-- A space-separated list of additional flags to pass to allllvm-profdata
invocations that cargo-llvm-cov performs. See LLVM documentation for available options.LLVM_PROFILE_FILE_NAME
-- Override the file name (the final component of the path) of theLLVM_PROFILE_FILE
. See LLVM documentation for available syntax.
See also environment variables that Cargo reads. cargo-llvm-cov respects many of them.
Additional JSON information
If JSON is selected as output format (with the --json
flag), then cargo-llvm-cov will add additional contextual information at the root of the llvm-cov data. This can be helpful for programs that rely on the output of cargo-llvm-cov.
{
// Other regular llvm-cov fields ...
"cargo_llvm_cov": {
"version": "0.0.0",
"manifest_path": "/path/to/your/project/Cargo.toml"
}
}
version
specifies the version of cargo-llvm-cov that was used. This allows other programs to verify a certain version of it was used and make assertions of its behavior.manifest_path
defines the absolute path to the Rust project's Cargo.toml that cargo-llvm-cov was executed on. It can help to avoid repeating the same option on both programs.
For example, when forwarding the JSON output directly to another program:
cargo-llvm-cov --json | some-program
Installation
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cargo +stable install cargo-llvm-cov --locked
Currently, installing cargo-llvm-cov requires rustc 1.73+.
cargo-llvm-cov is usually runnable with Cargo versions older than the Rust version
required for installation (e.g., cargo +1.60 llvm-cov
). Currently, to run
cargo-llvm-cov requires Cargo 1.60+.
From prebuilt binaries
You can download prebuilt binaries from the Release page. Prebuilt binaries are available for macOS, Linux (gnu and musl), Windows (static executable), and FreeBSD.
<details> <summary>Example of script to download cargo-llvm-cov</summary># Get host target
host=$(rustc -vV | grep '^host:' | cut -d' ' -f2)
# Download binary and install to $HOME/.cargo/bin
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -fsSL https://github.com/taiki-e/cargo-llvm-cov/releases/latest/download/cargo-llvm-cov-$host.tar.gz | tar xzf - -C "$HOME/.cargo/bin"
</details>
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On GitHub Actions
You can use taiki-e/install-action to install prebuilt binaries on Linux, macOS, and Windows. This makes the installation faster and may avoid the impact of problems caused by upstream changes.
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@cargo-llvm-cov
When used with nextest:
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@cargo-llvm-cov
- uses: taiki-e/install-action@nextest
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Via Homebrew
You can install cargo-llvm-cov from the Homebrew tap maintained by us (x86_64/AArch64 macOS, x86_64/AArch64 Linux):
brew install taiki-e/tap/cargo-llvm-cov
Alternatively, you can install cargo-llvm-cov from homebrew-core (x86_64/AArch64 macOS, x86_64 Linux):
brew install cargo-llvm-cov
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Via Scoop (Windows)
You can install cargo-llvm-cov from the Scoop bucket maintained by us:
scoop bucket add taiki-e https://github.com/taiki-e/scoop-bucket
scoop install cargo-llvm-cov
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Via cargo-binstall
You can install cargo-llvm-cov using cargo-binstall:
cargo binstall cargo-llvm-cov
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Via pacman (Arch Linux)
You can install cargo-llvm-cov from the extra repository:
pacman -S cargo-llvm-cov
Known limitations
- Support for branch coverage is unstable. See #8 and rust-lang/rust#79649 for more.
- Support for doc tests is unstable and has known issues. See #2 and rust-lang/rust#79417 for more.
See also the code-coverage-related issues reported in rust-lang/rust.
Related Projects
- coverage-helper: Helper for #123.
- cargo-config2: Library to load and resolve Cargo configuration. cargo-llvm-cov uses this library.
- cargo-hack: Cargo subcommand to provide various options useful for testing and continuous integration.
- cargo-minimal-versions: Cargo subcommand for proper use of
-Z minimal-versions
.
License
Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT license at your option.
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.